Infundibular recess

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Brain: Infundibular recess
Median sagittal section of brain of human embryo of three months. (Recessus infundibuli visible labeled at bottom left.)
Latin	recessus infundibuli
Gray's	subject #189 816
NeuroNames	hier-441
Dorlands/Elsevier	r_05/12696677

The floor of the third ventricle is prolonged downward as a funnel-shaped recess, the infundibular recess, into the infundibulum, and to the apex of the latter the hypophysis is attached.

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